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By guest contributor Tiraana Bains Intellectual histories of India, particularly of the decades and centuries following the mid-eighteenth century, are often histories of Europe’s India: India as it was imagined and understood or misunderstood by Europeans. Representations, discourses, knowledge forms,… Continue Reading →
Every year, the Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history. The winner of the 2017 Forkosch Prize has been is Eli Cook, for The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Nuala F. Caomhánach The tale about gag knuckles, taz-two, hairpin, ribbons, and treble clef is quite elusive. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Professor Sumit Guha This essay addresses the shifting connection between signifier and signified, word and thing, by looking at the history of an important and yet so protean sociological term: ‘tribe’. My argument is that ‘tribe’ is a… Continue Reading →
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By guest contributor Jonathan Potter Reviewing the 1842 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, the art critic John Eagles wrote of J. M. W. Turner’s paintings: They are like the “Dissolving Views,” which, when one subject is melting into another, and… Continue Reading →
By contributing writer Joseph Satish V Only a month after India gained independence from the British in 1947, the Indian botanist Debabrata Chatterjee wrote of his hope that in the new India the Government will… effect among other things the… Continue Reading →
Disha Returning to W.G. Sebald during the heatwave in Europe was both balm and irritant, as I read once more the lines: “I became preoccupied not only with the unaccustomed sense of freedom but also with the paralysing horror that… Continue Reading →
